Choking on Costello John Howard: [visibly tense, eyes swivelling] “The Liberal Party of course will need to choose a new leader. I wish that person whoever it is and I’ve indicated very clearly from my earlier remarks who I believe… Read More ›
Month: November 2007
Welcome Rudd and Gillard.
There was champagne, there was whooping, there were tuneless chants of “Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio!” I’d like to issue a hearty welcome to Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. For overseas Hoyden readers, Julia Gillard is the first woman to become Australia’s… Read More ›
Time for someone to get chucked off the ABC Board (oops – if only I hadn’t got my coalition cheerleader pundits confused)
It was always a joke having Caroline Overington appointed to the Board anyway – surely they have an excuse to chuck her after this? Update: How Embarrassment! I was getting her confused with Janet Albrechtsen! (Must have been more affected… Read More ›
Howard has conceded!
Just heard that Howard has rung Rudd to concede the election! I’m off to drink some bubbly with some blogfriends and others at the Bat and Ball Hotel. Woohoo!
Friday Hoyden: belated and generalised
Sorry, all you hoyden fans – Lauredhel and I are just so absorbed with the election nerves that we haven’t been keeping on task and keeping up to date with our Friday Hoydens. We were having a little IM chat… Read More ›
Searchable polling booth map
Don’t forget to vote. Searchable polling booth map. Enjoy.
Melbourne Choral Flashmob urges “Vote the Bastards Out”
kwoff_id = 6742; Your Youtubes du jour. First up: “Vote the Bastards Out”, sung a choral flashmob in Melbourne. The composer was Stephen Taberner. Jodes writes on reddit: Members of several choirs decided to create a choral flash mob across… Read More ›
We’re back
Fancy that. I’m not quite sure what broke the blog, as the upgrading seemed to be going so well at first, so I will be moving carefully from now on. The look of the blog has been reverted to the… Read More ›
Fiddling
I’ve been thinking for some time that I really need to upgrade the site to the latest versions of WordPress and K2, which requires mostly me spending ages backing things up before updating. So, this will be happening and hopefully… Read More ›
I, for one
So the Blairites seem mostly to be resigning themselves to their fate, though I’m confident they will be like pigs in shit for their time supporting the Opposition. This thread laments the fake campaign pamphlets, Don’t bother with most of… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 